How many of you are color neutral?

[Erik]

I'm doing opposite colour solving since after about 2 months of cubing already, I think that's why my times are totally the same on aswell yellow as white. I wonder (since it's a long time ago) if anybody else was already doing opposite colour by then, or at least had thought about the advantages of it. (it was december 2005 so I can't remember it that good anymore .. )

 

[Stefan]

That's a lot more (semi)neutral people than I would've guessed. I'm surprised. Good poll!

 

[hdskull]

I was color neutral, but I switched to white, because another cuber faster than me at the time said white was easier to spot. I then switched to white only, I solve yellow if the yellow cross is way easier than the white cross, or if the white cross is extremely hard.

 

[toast]

I'm color neutral, i just find the easiest (extended) cross.

 

[hait2]

I'm color neutral in FMC (cough)

1 color, blue >_>

 

[Inusagi]

I am always using white...

 

[Kenneth]

Yellow cross, always, if there is not a wery good case in white, then I use opposite.

I used to do dual solving more often but I noted that my recognition was pretty much slower then, what I gained from an easier cross I lost from slower recogintion.

I can imagine that if you use a pretty "simple" method like OLL/PLL it does not matter that much...

But I do all kinds of LL styles, often ZB and recognition can be terrible if you are neutral (I tried it =) there are so many cases you newer get used to see them. sometimes it looks totaly weird because of some rare colour mix.

For 2x2x2 and Pyraminx I'm compleatly neutral doe, even when I do EG on 2x2x2 (but then the same thing happens, some cases are so rare you newer get used to them = slow).

 

[immortalcube]

I'm better with Petrus, though, which I'd say is kind of hard to do well without being color neutral...

I use Petrus, and I solve only on white and yellow (and I've heard other Petrus users say the same). Hopefully I will get better with other colors as I get better at the method though.

 

[Johannes91]

I use Petrus, and I solve only on white and yellow (and I've heard other Petrus users say the same).

Is this what you do? (I'm assuming white and yellow are opposite each other.)

Step 1: All 2x2x2 blocks have either white or yellow, so no restrictions.
Step 2: Two of the three extensions are fine (one would make the 2x2x3 block have white and yellow).
Step 4a: LL is already chosen, so only 2/4 options are ok.

That's at least much better than using exactly same colors for every step.

 

[immortalcube]

Yeah that's about it. (white and yellow are opposite on my cube)
When I first started learning, Petrus' website said to always use the same corner at first, but I hated missing out on good starts because of that. This way I can solve any 2x2x2, and am only slightly limited by my extensions later on. Also this means that my C/E pairs are always the same, so I can recognize them faster.

 

[Siraj A.]

I am color neutral for every puzzle I solve.

 

[Hadley4000]

Neutral. Always been that way.

 

[Stefan]

I'd like to know what the fastest guys do, though. Yu, Harris, Edouard, Mitsuki, Jason, etc. Are any of those neutral or semi-neutral?

 

[Hadley4000]

I'd like to know what the fastest guys do, though. Yu, Harris, Edouard, Mitsuki, Jason, etc. Are any of those neutral or semi-neutral?

I know that Yu, Harris and Jason are fixed color.

The fastest color neutral solver I can think of is Rowe Hessler.

 

[Jai]

Jason Thong is color neutral, too.

 

[brunson]

I'm pretty sure Harris has posted in the past that he only solves white. His last comment was to the effect that he needs to practice opposite color.

 

[ynajatrice]

im also color neutral

im still having problems in F2L look ahead

hehehe

i hope i can find a way to deal with it

 

[MasakitChan]

I always start with the white face. I'm used to only one color since I started using only white as the cross the first day I did that.

 

[DavidWoner]

I'd like to know what the fastest guys do, though. Yu, Harris, Edouard, Mitsuki, Jason, etc. Are any of those neutral or semi-neutral?

i believe Eduoard is also white cross-only. i also looked at some Mitsuki's vids, and he has white on top for every one of his solves, so i think he is blue cross-only.

i am white cross-only, about 5 secs slower on opposite, 10-15 slower on anything else.

 

[ManuK]

I started with green.Then decided to go with white after i brought a good cube.
Am thinking of sticking with white..
Maybe will start doing yellow too after i reach the sub-40 avg mark.